Do Not Let Drinking Harm PKD Patients

Drinking is very common in our daily life. No matter in social activities or family gathering, drinking is usually inevitable. We can say drinking has become a kind of culture. Some people like to prevail others so he drink excessively, which usually arouse many trouble, jeopardize himself and other people. For patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (hereinafter called PKD), they must not take drinking, because drinking can speed up the progress of Renal Fibrosis and incur more severe influence to his disease.

Long term drinking can arouse anemia, disorder of thrombocyte function and various bleeding; in addition, it can also result in gastrointestinal absorption disturbance and malnutrition which can decrease human body’s absorption to Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2 and folic acid, make more Vitamin B6 expel from human body; also drinking can cause Hyperlipemia and Atherosclerosis etc. We can realize drinking can damage the general conditions. The recovery of PKD patients need a favorable environment, but drinking only play a negative effect.

Moreover, drinking is harmful to kidney, because it can influence nitrogen balance of human body. More proteins are decomposed under alcohol’s function so that the content of urea nitrogen in blood get increased, which is probably add kidneys’ burden. Although the doctor say adequate drinking is beneficial to health, it’s really hard to grasp the proper extent, so PKD patients should better keep away from those so-called excitant alcohol.


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